¡Yallah! ¡Yallah! (2017) User Reviews

Good intentions but poor execution

[gonijohn · 7/10 · 29 October 2019]

... but worth watching it, as everything about israel - palestinian unsolved problem. You have to know even not too serious information in order to decide what's your opinion about it.

Let's play football

[emilywes56 · 10/10 · 28 October 2019]

I managed to watch Yallah! Yallah! at its screening premiere in STUDIO ART CINEMA, one of the most famous and oldest cinemas in Athens, Greece. I knew that a previous screening premiere in Austria was cancelled, because of the film's "critisism" on Israel. At the end of the documentary, I was very pleased to see one of the two directors of the film, Cristian Pirovano, discussing about the journey to Palestine and the difficulties he faced during the shooting of the film. Directed by Cristian Pirovano and Fernando Romanazzo, the 2017 feature is an Argentinian-Palestinian co-production that was shot during the years of 2014-2015. This documentary focuses on the story of seven characters, which are connected to the world of football in one way or another. Through their daily lives, we get to know their bond with the sport, their activities and the problems they have to face due to the occupation by Israel. Even though they are constantly affected by Israel's subjugation of Palestine, they manage to survive and endure all sorts of issues in order to enjoy one of their biggest passions: football. Fortunately, the film has been screened in dozens of cities worldwide and, as a result, the viewers who are not capable of even considering possible the conditions of the Palestinian everyday lives, get to know the difficulties, the arrests of the football players without reasoning and the daily humiliation they receive. I hope this film will be a factor in raising awareness about the crimes and injustice that the state of Israel is doing to Palestinians until this day. This documentary is a piece from a much bigger puzzle of exploitation and abuse that most of the time is successfully covered.